Williams '' Red Wheelbarrow'

Some fancy that it is easiest to believe that things mean precisely what they appear to on the surface. However, to understand the world and thoughts of others in a more profound way, it is necessary to accept the fact that things may not always be just as they seem. It is imperative that one adopt this same attitude when reading poetry. One poem in particular that exemplifies this is John Updike’s “Telephone Poles”. Within the work, telephone poles are compared to trees by way of extended metaphor. “Telephone Poles” conveys the message that when nature is destroyed to make way for technology is harmful to nature itself and humankind as well by using an extended metaphor; this is enhanced and made clear by Updike’s usage of supporting metaphors, similes, verbal irony, and imagery.

In the poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride,” the author, Henry Longfellow, uses figurative language, and sound devices to create suspense and tension within the poem. The way he uses the figurative language and sound devices makes readers want to keep reading to find out what will happen next. In Longfellow’s famous poem he uses devices such as rhyming, rhyme scheme, and repetition to allow the readers to feel fear and push them to the edge of their seats. Some figurative language the storyteller uses is personification, and similes to compare objects, and fearful moments to something more dramatic.

The setting of this poem is in a rural part of an unnamed Southern state, off of Highway 96 at Cherrylog Road. It is at the peak of a summer afternoon in a junkyard full of discarded automobiles. This setting affects the reader’s perception of this poem by using a hot southern junkyard with an active sun that is “eating the paint in blisters from a hundred car

From the beginning of William Carlos Williams’ poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” the reader is captured by the statement “so much depends” (Williams line 1). As this short work continues the reader is seeing a graceful image that Williams creates. The mind’s eye can envision a painting that is tranquil, yet has the quiet activity of a rural farm home. With this in mind, what exactly is the author sharing with the reader? The poem communicates charmingly the dependence a man has for a vital piece of equipment.

“Introduction to Poetry” and “Traveling Through the Dark,” are poems written by Billy Collins and William Stafford. The poem’s, “Introduction to Poetry”, main conflict is a teacher who tries to get his students to read and appreciate a poem, but what all the students only care about is figuring out what it means. The conflict is highlighted through the many uses of metaphors to help us understand how he wants the students to look and decipher a poem and how they only focus on finding the meaning instead of taking their time to listen and see the art of poetry. William Stafford’s poem, “Traveling Through the Dark,” describes a driver’s dilemma of deciding whether to throw a dead pregnant deer into the river, or leave it laying on the road where it can cause an accident. In both poems, the use of literary devices such as metaphors, personification, imagery, and diction are effective in making and building up the conflict and reaching the resolution.

In the poem, “Crossing the Swamp,” by Mary Oliver, readers encounter a speaker who compares a swamp to her life, and how she is stuck in the “swamp.” The poet creates a helpless tone because the speaker is explaining how life can make readers feel stuck and unable to get up from the low points in life. The result is a poem that makes readers feel sad and disconcerting. “Crossing the Swamp” depicts the feelings all humans endure at least once in their life—hardship; when a person faces adversity and depressing times, the only thing to do is not quit because that struggle is preparing him or her for a jubilant future. In communicating this view, the poet relies on imagery, tone shift, consonance, and metaphor.

Poetry has a role in society, not only to serve as part of the aesthetics or of the arts. It also gives us a view of what the society is in the context of when it was written and what the author is trying to express through words. The words as a tool in poetry may seem ordinary when used in ordinary circumstance. Yet, these words can hold more emotion and thought, however brief it was presented.

In stanza one, Judith Wright utilizes personification “rivers hindered him” and “thorn branches caught at his eyes to make him blind” coupled with metaphor “the sky turned into an unlucky opal” to emphasise nature’s hindrance of the blacksmith boy, if the poem is to be deemed as a metaphorical representation of

In the poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Willams, there are multiple different ways one can decipher a meaning about what the writer is trying to portray. This poem is particularly short, which means that the reader has to try and grasp the idea that the writer is trying to portray, with the very few words given. Specific words in this poem have a sense of love and lust, but with a twist of loneliness for those who don’t believe in it. Starting off the poem with the three words “so much depends”, reveals to the reader what the author is about to say, has a sentimental value to him. The pronoun “so much” reveals all of something that can be revealed in a certain time period. Beginning the poem with these two words allows the reader to understand how much something depends

One may ask themselves, what is poetry? Honestly, this question may present an array of varying answers from the audience to which this question was originally inquired. There are a multitude of different elements to poetry. Before anyone can properly analyze this question, or poetry in general for that matter, needs to be knowledgeable of these elements in order to have a better understanding of exactly what they are analyzing. Throughout the course of this paper, the song “Carried away” by George Strait will be analyzed using the knowledge and proper understanding of poetry elements.

In his short poem “The Red Wheelbarrow,” William Carlos Williams uses enjambment to disrupt conventional syntax, encourage slow reading and close consideration of each word, and deconstruct images into their essential parts in order to establish a more vivid visualization of the world he presents. Enjambment is characterized by the incomplete syntax at the end of a line in poetry due to the lack of terminal punctuation. This allows for the meaning of a line to flow over to the next, creating a sense of disorder, ambiguity, and anticipation that is only satisfied by the continuation of the thought on the next line where the syntax is either complete or continued. By use of enjambment, Williams’s “The Red Wheelbarrow” expands a single sentence of sixteen words over the course of eight lines. Deceptively simple, the poem describes a scene Williams observes in which a red wheelbarrow stands coated in rainwater next to chickens. But by writing this sentence in eight lines, Williams inserts space between each word, disrupting the reader’s expectation of flow and forcing closer reading of each line and word that now carries a much heavier weight and meaning.

Seemingly in the poem “A red Wheel Barrel” when the poet says, “it all depends on this is telling us to use our imagination, dream, or picture the world beyond an image of a “Red Wheel Barrel” (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012). “Images such a “Red Wheel Barrel” only are presented as ideas that are difficult to convey in any other way than as the central idea (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012).   Perhaps the poets are expressing his emotions about how he feels about the world now. More so I feel the poet is sad about a car wreck and the how we take the world and all the beauty of it for granted, by not looking beyond what is in front of us. “Investigations on the processing and representation of emotion have increased in recent years, as researchers attempt

Then, Williams finds a way to change the depressing mood of his poem by using specific words to convey feelings of hope. He does this in his fourth stanza with the lines: “Lifeless in appearance, sluggish/dazed spring approaches” (L14-15). Williams is saying that the plants, the trees, and the vines only appear to be dead, but they are not. Once again imagery is being used here. Also, what is going to save this otherwise seemingly desolate land is the approaching spring; “sluggish” and “dazed” as it may be, it is imminent – life is forthcoming. Williams also proffers up more hope with the lines: “One by one objects are defined/rooted, they/grip down and begin to awaken” (L22,26-27).

There are not many poems which offer such a wide range of possible perspectives for an interpretation as T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", a cycle consisting of five parts. A deep and thorough knowledge of his whole work, life and influences is necessary to provide a

Eliot’s creative use of poetic form is one of the hallmarks of “The Wasteland” and greatly contributed to the overall tone and mood. The structure of the poem is uneven and almost discordant. It rapidly transitions between various unrelated scenes at a rapid pace. For example, “I read, much of the night and go south in the winter/What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow…” (19-20) illustrates an abrupt shift in the setting which includes the speaker, time, and place. In the first line, the reader is listening to the story of Marie. In the second line, however, the reader has been transported to a desert: a literal wasteland. This choppy stream of images emphasizes a message about society: like the poem, society does not progress smoothly and can even be unpredictable.